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by lilsoso 5y ago
Shouldn't some non-trivial % of VPN companies popular on the market be run by intelligence agencies by various countries as a honey pot operation? Or is the idea that intelligence agencies have better means to monitor internet traffic?
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by lilsoso 5y ago
I get locked out of gmail using NordVPN with increasing frequency. I was locked out of my account this week for one night.
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by lilsoso 5y ago
In California a $100k salary results in the take home pay of a little more than $5k/month. So saving ~$30k/year is roughly equivalent to saving half of your take home pay of a $100k salary in California. That's pretty good. P
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by lilsoso 5y ago
Is this at a FAANG company? Could you advise how you reached that level of compensation? Is grinding hundreds of Leetcode problems necessary?
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by lilsoso 5y ago
Let's say you're fleeing Tunisia with a liquid net worth of over $10k. You want some money in cash, certainly. But crossing borders with over $10k is a legal problem. You're also liable to be robbed. It would make sense to co
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by lilsoso 5y ago
How to stay anonymous online is an interesting problem. Guides may recommend privacy plugins for chrome: uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes, PixelBlock, etc... However, these plugins may also make your browser easier to fingerprin
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by lilsoso 5y ago
Should you need to flee the country, you'll need access to money. You could deposit money into cryptocurrency 'stable coins', which are generally backed 1:1 by other currencies. The stablecoin called USDC would work for this
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by lilsoso 5y ago
Based on your report, without having the facts at hand, I would guess that COVID is more lethal for the vaccinated because there are more elderly people in that demographic. What I've found amusing is Michael Burry's concerns over
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by lilsoso 6y ago
the use of the phrase 'the last man' is a nod to Nietzsche's concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_man . we see similar sentiments echoed elsewhere in culture, for example: the masses placated by s
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by lilsoso 6y ago
Zizek writes serious books. He's often known by the public for making jokes because that's what the public consumes: they don't read serious books.
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by lilsoso 6y ago
How does one qualify as a European user? That is, how can I get WhatsApp to share less data?
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by lilsoso 6y ago
I agree. The common saying "nobody is thinking about you (except you)" is specious. Upon examination it falls apart. You think about others, albeit not everyone you encounter but the people you care about. Why wouldn't they t
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by lilsoso 6y ago
Thank you! I hadn't heard of Decentraleyes, the project looks great. As you mention, tracking of smartphones is more troubling. I was dismayed to learn how many applications were tracking me via Facebook identifiers. For this reason, I
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by lilsoso 6y ago
Could you please suggest tools other than a VPN for protecting privacy? I am guessing this would be along the lines of adblockers and custom browser configurations. I am told VPNs may not be that great for blocking newer forms of advertisin
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by lilsoso 6y ago
> 2) As setting up a VPN company is easy/cheap, you conversely have to spend a large pile of cash to advertize your way to the top. Therefore, it seems to obvious that the VPN companies with the largest advertising budgets (perhaps
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by lilsoso 6y ago
You are overlooking a jump that seems obvious to me and I have not seen anyone address before: if government intelligence agencies go to great lengths to spy on the world's internet traffic, why wouldn't they run, and promote, the
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by lilsoso 6y ago
The commenter you are quoting is praising free speech. Yes, it is a good thing. To belabor the point, what's ironic is that in the 1990s it was the right, 'the religious right', that wanted to censor free speech -- such as th
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by lilsoso 6y ago
Wait, how common are $300k salaries in SF/NYC outside of FAANG-level companies? This forum isn't Teamblind.
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by lilsoso 6y ago
Great idea, I've bookmarked your service. I once briefly looked for this feature and gave up thinking it didn't exist.
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by lilsoso 6y ago
Musi does work well for playing music in the background on iOS. A downside to Musi is that after playing a video a full screen ad will often pop up in a way that feels invasive and can be difficult to avoid inadvertently clicking. The behav
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by lilsoso 6y ago
To be able to afford a home and starting a family in a major US city.
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by lilsoso 6y ago
As Thiel puts it, unless you attend an elite university your degree is merely a dunce hat in disguise.
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by lilsoso 6y ago
A great feature to add would be a weekly email, featuring the trades of the top performing senators over long term time horizons. That way users could copy their trades on the presumption it is either insider trading or expert advice.
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by lilsoso 6y ago
There's a phrase, 'cut and cloth'. Better materials, the basic ingredients, generally increases the price (cloth from quality fabric mills, finer wools, nice dyes, shell buttons, leather, etc...). And the cut matters, to pay
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by lilsoso 7y ago
Do the problems require familiarity with say more serious algorithmic techniques such as graphs?
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by lilsoso 7y ago
You're intentionally missing the point of his argument: eating more does not mean better nutrition.
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by lilsoso 7y ago
But the ISP can likely map most of the IPs to hostnames, as one would expect shared hosting to only be used for smaller sites.
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by lilsoso 7y ago
You seem to feel that housing is overvalued in Denmark in general, by your comment: "Someone purchasing a home for DKK 300K with no interest may think they're getting a deal". I imagine that housing in Copenhagen is similar t
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by lilsoso 7y ago
To your point, there's a quote I've seen with increasing frequency along the lines of: Devoting your life to your family? That's slavery. Devoting your life to a corporation? That's emancipation.
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by lilsoso 7y ago
The scheme is found at an earlier date in a novel by Jerzy Kosinski. I believe it's in his book called "Steps" (1968), however I forget exactly which work it's in. The scam seems to be well known. I presume it happened s

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